WORD (PAGE #) DEFINITION


  • Literacy Pedagogy (60) - teaching and learning to read and write in page-bound, official, standard forms of the national language
    • The "What" (73) - what the students need to learn
    • The "How" (73) - the range of appropriate learning relationships
  • Multiliteracy (60) - shifts in the usage of language (technology, communications, etc.)
  • Linguistic (60) - relating to a language or linguistics
  • Monolingual (61) - knowing only one language
  • Multilingual (61) - expressed and knowing more than one language
  • PostFordism (66) - the changing nature of work; replaces the old hierarchical command structures from Ford's development of mass production
  • Fast Capitalism (66) - another word for the changing nature of work
  • Orders of Discourse (71) - the relationship of discourses in a particular social space
  • Symbolic Capital (71) - symbolic meanings that have currency in access to employment, political power, and cultural recognition
  • Subjectivities (72) - interests, intentions, commitments, and purposes
  • Semiotic (74) - the "grammars" of languages, film, photography, or gesture
  • Discourse (75) - a configuration of knowledge and its habitual forms of expression, which represent a particular set of interests; can include style, genre, dialect, voice, etc.
  • Style (75) - the configuration of all the semiotic features in a text which language may relate to layout and visual images
  • Genres (75) - forms of text or textual organization that arise out of particular social configurations or the particular relationships of the participants in an interaction
  • Dialects (75) - region or age-related designs
  • Voice (75) - more individual and personal, including discursive and generic factors
  • Metalanguages (77) - language talking about languages images, texts, and meaning-making interactions
  • Nominalization (79) - the process or result of forming a noun or noun phrase from a clause or a verb
  • Situated Practice (88) - immersion in experience and the utilization of available discourses, including student lifeworlds and simulations of relationships found in workplaces and public spaces
  • Overt Instruction (88) - systematic, analytic, and conscious understanding; requires introduction of metalanguages
  • Critical Framing (88) - interpreting the social and cultural context of particular Designs of meaning; viewing studies critically in relation to contexts
  • Transformed Practice (88) - transfer in meaning-making process where the transformed meanings are put into other contexts or cultural sites